<<It's one of Parkinson's Laws, or at least
a corollary. Like "work expands to meet the time
available", the horse population expands to meet <<the space
available. That's what you get for buying a boarding facility!
<<Lynne
heehee! We just hit 50 total horses
at the facility today. 14 are ours. I’m just happy there are
more boarded horses than my own! And I only have time to ride one.
But I need a back up, want to breed one (or two), lesson horses, horses I bred
I want to see what they’ll turn out like, horses I bought to train and
sell and decided to keep. How dumb is that?! But one mare I bought
at an auction knowing she “hadn’t been handled” – didn’t
know she was feral! So she’ll take some time, but I already know I
just love her to death and with her bloodlines, her baby (due in August –
yuck!) will be worth more to sell than her – until I fall in love with it
too!
I have
been given 2 free horses in the last week. In the last year we’ve
been given 2 for free, one for very cheap, and 2 others for trades (one for a
saddle). This is almost becoming a problem! I’m not very good
at selling horses so as of today I have 14. And I went to look at another
one that needs a home today. I don’t know how this happens, I
don’t look for them, really I don’t! At least I keep telling
my husband that! People just seem to realize that we give horses good
homes and that I can’t say no.
But I did get a chance to ride my newest horse that I intend to
compete on today – first time on the trail for us. Saddle
doesn’t fit me at all and she is very forward – for which I’m
thrilled, so I can hardly wait to find a better saddle for us both and get to
conditioning.
The horse that came in today has someone coming to look at him
tomorrow so I’m crossing my fingers. Otherwise, I’d better
get busy and put some up on the classifieds so I can pass on my bounty to
someone else. (if not for free, at least reasonable I hope!)
